Belfast-born artist Hugh O’Neill has been a friend of
The Ireland Funds for many years through his generous contribution of paintings as auction items at the annual Palm Beach dinner. He has become one of the most collected Irish landscape painters of his generation.

He moved to the United States more than 10 years ago but travels back to Ireland each summer to paint.

'The talent of the artist and the quality of the paintings is obvious''
~ Neil Watson
Curator of Exhibitions Norton Museum of Art

Voted best-known Irish artist by Florida’s influential “Palm Beach Illustrated” magazine, O’Neill has gained international recognition as one of Ireland’s greatest living landscape painters and his work features in many important corporate and private collections, including those of the Bank of America and a former director of the Norton Museum of Art.

O’Neill is a Fine Arts graduate of the University of Ulster, where his early work attracted critical attention and he was described by a prominent art academic as “a gifted young master”.

Top American art writer Bruce Helander—whose own work is at the world-famous Guggenheim, Metropolitan and Smithsonian—has characterized O'Neill as “a visual musician” and described his work as “inspirational”.

O’Neill, 47, has his own gallery in the Tequesta, Palm Beach area of Florida and also exhibits in prestigious galleries in New York, Boston, Washington, Atlanta and other major U.S. cities. He can be reached at :

O’Neill Gallery
385 Tequesta Drive
Tequesta, FL 33469
Telephone: 561.744.2787